One of the main driving forces behind the UK’s exit from the European Union is returning to the island soon.

Nigel Farage will give a talk at the Palace Hotel on February 1.

He will discuss all things Brexit and promises to answer anything asked of him.

It will cost £30 to hear him talk or £50 to hear him talk and have a photo taken with him.

Mr Farage, the man Donald Trump before he became president called ’Mr Brexit’, is easily one of the most controversial characters in modern British history.

Mr Farage told the Manx Independent that, even though he hasn’t been in the Isle of Man for a few years, he remembers and likes the real ’community spirit’ here.

The former UKIP leader added: ’I’ve been to the island a few times.

’I think this may be my sixth trip and it is a great place, really nice community and people and it’s a place with a strong identity that really knows what and who it is.

’Sadly I am only in the island for a brief visit but I remember when I last visited on November 11, 2014, and I attended the deeply moving memorial service in Douglas.

’I thought then that there are many differences between England and the Isle of Man.

’But I just thought this shows we are all one very big family of the British Isles which has always stood together.’

Unsurprisingly, Mr Farage, who quit UKIP last month because of its ’fixation’ with the anti-Muslim policies, believes Brexit could be good for the island as we will be free from the EU setting the rules for financial institutions.

However, he fears the UK may not have the best interests of the Isle of Man in mind when leaving the EU.

Mr Farage, who has tried and failed to become a Westminster MP seven times, said: ’I don’t think the UK is particularly concerned with the Isle of Man. It has long been more concerned with Brussels and other nations than with our friends within the British Isles and the Commonwealth.’

When asked how his anti-EU message may have changed from his last appearance in the island in 2014, he said: ’I’m perhaps not the dreamer I was. We’re opposing the globalised order and career politicians, but a clean Brexit can be very good for the UK and for the Isle of Man. But the government must think long term and work together with our "family of the British Isles".’ When he was last in the island, some may have laughed at him being convinced Britain would quit the EU if the public were given the chance. But as he famously told the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, ’no one is laughing now’.

From delivering his promise of Brexit, Farage then proclaimed that Donald Trump would beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 American election. Again while some laughed, he was proved right.

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